Quasicircles as equipotential lines, homotopy classes and geodesics

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDW025MaRDI QIDQ3188366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gaven J. Martin

Publication date 19 August 2016

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1560

zbMATH Keywords

distortionquasicirclecapacitorhyperbolic geodesicequipotential line

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasiconformal mappings in the complex plane (30C62) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, other methods (30C75)

Abstract: We give an application of our earlier results concerning the quasiconformal extension of a germ of a conformal map to establish that in two dimensions the equipotential level lines of a capacitor are quasicircles whose distortion depends only on the capacity and the level. As an application we find that given disjoint, nonseparating and nontrivial continua $E$ and $F$ in $hatmathbbC=mathbbCcupinfty$, the closed hyperbolic geodesic generating the fundamental group $$ is a $K$-quasicircle separating $E$ and $F$ with explicit distortion bound depending only on the capacity of $hatmathbbCsetminus(EcupF)$. This result is then extended to obtain distortion bounds on a quasicircle representing a given homotopy class of a simple closed curve in a planar domain. Finally we are able to use these results to show that a simple closed hyperbolic geodesic in a planar domain is a quasicircle with a distortion bound depending explicitly, and only, on its length.

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